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He enjoyed the sparring, felt he was being tested rather than judged. The rapid-fire questions were an invigorating change from church services where he was expected to orate for an hour while others sat silent.
everyone is happy and relaxed.
“What is USIC, exactly?”
“I don’t even know what the letters in ‘USIC’ stand for,” said Peter.
it wasn’t clear into whose hands he was about to be delivered.
Haha
BG.
Tuska,
Simile metaphor hyperbole
“BG,
“Artie Severin.
“We all gotta ride the learning curve.
I done this trip once before.
In Peter’s experience, it was better to speak in one’s own idiom than echo the idioms and accents of others.
paracetamol
“But one thing you learn when you go on a trip like this, man, is you gotta relax your principles sometimes.”
they were floating in a foreign solar system, trillions of miles from home.
Tuska the pilot
The world has room for lots of different ways of talking.”
a ship in the shape of a swollen tick: big belly of fuel, tiny head.
Simile
maps of the unmappable.
Haha
I feel I let you down.
I wonder if I’m up to it.
Haha
Haha
The rain! The rain wasn’t falling in straight lines, it was … dancing!
the three-day night.
There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT.
Haha
He kept forgetting how far from home he was. It was time to go out and face that.
Haha
Simile
His gait was a little wonky,
His feet seemed to bounce slightly
as though the bitumen was rubberized.
trampoline effect.
Atmosphere, in his experience, had always been an absence. The air here was a presence,
If it weren’t for God, the almighty vacuum would be too crushing to endure,
The atmosphere was full of rustling.
This world’s indigenous inhabitants,
fastidious assurances that nothing was planned or implemented without their full and informed consent.
“Grainger,”
“Stanko’s
the sheer alienness of these people, and his irrelevance to them, threatened to flood his spirit with fear, the paralysis of shyness,
“Moro.
“Werner,”
“Tokugawa”
It takes you three, four years to hit your stride.
After a while you get to the point where you can see how everything joins up with everything else. How the work of an engineer ties in with the work of a plumber and an electrician and a cook and a … a horticulturalist.”
Haha
“God’s sick sense of humor,”
